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THURSDAY NOVEMBER 7 1901
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The circulation of The Times for the week
ended Nov Smber z 1901 was as follows
fcundar October 27 OS03
Monday October 2S 3 M7
Tue eda Oct HI SS91
cdmvdar October 30 S3 4S9
Thursday October 31 SlllO
IrieUv Member 1 3Sl
Safurdar Jocnibcr 2 397S0
Total S53W1
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A Contrast
As the country knows and appreciates
today the national metropolis of Great
er New York was redeemed from the
disgrace of Tammany rule on Tuesday
by tho devotion to principle and de
cency of Democratic oters of the city
Normally New York is Democratic by
seventy five thousand votes and one
would hae thought that tn enlisting the
Democratic element so largely in Uie
majoritj on a square issue the organ
izers of the fusion movement against a
corrupt organization always posing as
Democratic would have nominated a
refoi m Democrat to head the ticket
But Republicanism even in its best and
most moral expression is porcine and
a Republican was selected Personally
a better choice could not hae ben
made Mr Low is an able distin
fj guished and experienced citizen who
has twice been Mayor of Brooklyn and
has the credit of ha ing been one of the
best of all the men who hat e held that
position before or after him That is
not the point It would hae been rea
sonable and natural to have accorded
the mayoralty to the element without
w hose -support the ictorj for good gov
ernment could not hae been won No
matter The Democrats of Gotham ac
cepted the situuion and worked as
earnestly for the election of Setli Low
as if like himself they had been dyed-in-the-wool
Republicans They suc
ceeded in changing a usual Democratic
majority of seventy -five thousand to a
non partisan reform majority of ap
proximate thirty thousand
Contrast this successful non political
effort In New York with the results of
the election in Pennsylvania There
also the Democratic organization in the
metropolis of the State and in the State
itself subordinated and in fact brushed
aside all political considerations to pro
mote salvation from the corrupt tyran
ny of the Quay machine rule It sup
ported a Republican for State Treasur
er and reformers for offices in the
Quaker City Iiut all this self abnega
tion was wasted Republicans are not
capable of reform when reform In
volves the destruction of any machine
which bears tl eir union label They
were useful and loyal in New York be
cause they all assumed tnat in fighting
Tammanv they were fighting- a Demo
cratic pouer If the same startling
abuses and corruptions had been of Re
publican genesis as identically they are
f In Philadelphia they would have been
continued and supported It Is a pe
culiarity of Republicans to howl at their
dishonest bosses between elections and
then to ote the boss ticket on
f tion da
So it happened on Tuesday in Phila
delphia and in Pennsylvania generally
Jf the self sacrifice of the Democratic
element In the Keystone State had been
supported by the decent Republicans
Qua ism would have been as effectuallj
snoved under as Crokerism and Dev
erjism was in Greater New York The
country has the two pictures before it
Democrats will forget party In any con
test for decency Republicans will not
I he Arllo iv Iprll
The aged Li Hung Chang according
to our advices lies at deaths door It
Is possible that by the hour this edition
goes to press we may have heard of
his death With him passes the last of
a generation of prominent Chinese
htatesmen who were powerful forty
j ears ago in China but have grad
ually died off leating Earl LI as the
last sun Ivor Awaj back in 1SG3 when
Gordon was fighting the Tai Ping re
bellion Li was a general and was hunt
ed by Gordon with homicidal Intent for
his treachery In murdering the rebel
Wangs who had cen turned oer to
him on condition tnat their lives should
be spared and themselves well treated
That was a fair illustration of his char
acter Since that time as a statesman
and diplomat lie has been noted for
ability but even more for duplitity
foiivetimes Impenetrable Tor fifteen
Jeani he has been playing the part of
tool for the Empress Dowager and at
the same time for the Russian Govern
ment Probably he has in reality been
more the latter as it was a line of busi
ness always susceptible of prosecution
on a cai h basis without the necessity of
division of prohts with anybody Lis
various negotiations with Russia un
doubtedly have promoted the move
ment which has culminated in the Rus
sian occupation of Manchuria Mon
golia and Eastern Turkestan and it is
more than possible that the Empress
Dowagers tardy realization of the fact
is partly responsible for the old gentle
mans failure in health
Whether dead or alive he is negligible
as far as future events may be con
cerned His place is likely to be filled
If filled at all with somebody even more
-obnoxious to Western ideas and inter
ests than he At least it may be said
ofhim that he wi not a reactionary In
the sense that the Boxer leaders
Prince Tuan and General Yang Lu are
It Is also noticeable that with his elimi
nation from the scene they and their
Kind are rapidly coming to the front
and herein lies the Yellow Peril to
civilization
Nothing could be more notorious than
the fact that the Enprcss Dowager was
the real Instigator of the Boxer move
ment of the murder of the Japanese
Chancellor of Legation Aklra of the
murder of Baron von Kettelcr and of
the attempt to massacre the foreign
Ministers and legation people In Peking
sl Hsi needed a stern lesson indeed
iieedtd to be takennd hanged as an
example to her people1 IiaUtad she
IiHn Ueated with i i u i
lionor by the Povw t i
purely e rr whi
f r t hi mi r
trs ever to ci Ie
China and oniy awaits her opportunity
to do so with characteristic ignorance
impudence and atrocity
Already her anti foreign policy crops
out in the appointment of one of her
most bloodthirsty Boxer agents Na
Tung as a member of the new Chinese
Board of Torelgn Affairs Again she
designs to surround the throne with
creatures who can be depended upon to
lead In a new attempt to butcher the
legatiopers should opportunity offer
While she is tolerated In control of the
Chinese Government China will be a
powder magazine and somebody will
drop a lighted match In it or lightning
will strike it some day The Yellow
Peril Is not n thing of the past it Is an
ugly- and perhaps an Imminent one
The Kiifnreeme iit of IlnllillnK Invvx
Anvonc who has IiitLinuch to do with
New York tenements cannot have failed
to note the desperate need of proper
building lav 3 in that city Incidentally
it may be observed that in most other
cities there is more liberty In construct
ing cheap buildings than there should
be It ought to be made impossible for
an unscrupulous land owner or contrac
tor to endanger the lives and injure the
health of poor families by putting up
houses which ate unsanitary fire traps
A man who sgns himslf Builder
writes to one of the New York papers
expressing the hope that the defeat of
Tammany may result in energetic and
effeitive action in this matter He
says
The truth of the matter is that favored con
tractors backed by unlimited political Inilue ilic
and large capital arc dom their level best to
hog all the building contracts in this citr V itii
an impudence only equaled by tiiat of their
backers patron the Squire they pioceed to do
this ty asking- for ib contraet blis without ref
erent to the dain requirements of the law
Naturally such bids are lower than those put in
by and law abiding butiucfti men who
having no rrivate assurances from the powers that
be at present that the obnoiious clause shall
be repealed before the material is required are
constrained to bid as the law directs Therefore
the firm with the tiff big puli gets the Jobs
This Is a partial explanation of the
fact that In spite of such building laws
as have been passed flimsy fire traps
are still erected for dwellings and
shops and dishonest contractors grow
fat on the proceeds It is of course
easy to see that to build an apartment
house or factory honestly using only
good material and planning the build
ing in such a way as to secure all the
light and ventilation possible in the cir
cumstances will be a more expensive
job than building it so that it will mere
ly house the number of people deslicd
as tenants and look ail right on the
outside It stands to reason that unless
the dishonest contractor is prevented
from doing business on his favorite
principles the honest architect and
builder and the just landlord will be
unable to do business except at a loss
This Is not a matter for sentimental
bewailing or cold blooded Indifference
It is simply a question of economics
There Is no doubt that in the long run
a dishonest business man makes the
whole community as well as his direct
victims pay his bills He not only low
ers the moral tono of the business
world but he prevents the majority of
his fellows from doing business on right
and horest lines which would in the
end add to the prosperity of all Any
body can see that a city In which every
building is well constructed durable
handsome In proportion to its cost and
thoroughly suited to the purpose for
which it Is erected is a pleasanter
cheaper and generally more profitable
place to live in than 01 e in which most
of the work Is badly done inartistic
Jnd unsulted to practical uses If the
main object of building a house were to
provide work for the builder by making
the house a ramshackle structure which
would not las the present system
would be all right though even then it
might be an improvement to go back
to the Indian wigwam But there is
no danger that architects masons and
bricklayers will find themselves out of
employment if contractors turn honest
The money that is saved by honest
work can be put Into more work of the
same kind There will be no loss in the
end for honest people The contractor
will have to be content with what he
can honestly earn Instead of all that he
can steal but that in the end will not
do even him any harm Those who are
rejoicing over the fact that Tammany
is beaten cannot do better than to use
their new opportunities in revising and
enforcing the building laws If they
can put up comfortable healthful
dwellings for a lew thousand poor peo
ple they will have done something
which no change of administration can
undo
I lie Vrrtllet of Ifiiiiliriso
Professor Lombroso has spoken He
has declared that Czax Nicholas Em
peror William Edward VII and other
rulers are lunatics He also Includes in
his list of candidates for the insane asy
lum Felix Faure Cecil Rhodes Joseph
Chamerlain and other eminent per
sons not of royal blood Those who
may be pronounced degeniate or in
sane by Lombroso in the future will
have the comfort of reflecting that at
any rate they are In good company and
for association with eminent persons
many an ambitious tuft hunter has
dared considerably- more than the possi
bility of a lunatic asylum
There are plenty of people In retreats
for the insane who firmly believe them
selves to be of royal blood or gieat In
some v ay or other and It has long been
the opinion of lon witted plodding
people that poets and novelists were at
least a ti file lisane but Lombrosos
verdict will be the first straightforward
statement the world has had to the ef
fect that famous folk of this world are
actually of unsound mind to the extent
that he says It is sad that the af
falis of nations hhould be entrusted to
the hands of crazy cople
Perhaps it would be simpler to siy
that Lombroso himself Is non compos
mentis at least that is the way that it
will ttrike a great many people It cer
tainly seems at first blush more likely
thai one Italian scientist is mad than
that half the crowned heads of Europe
and many of It leaders of thought are
in that condition But after all the
opinion of an expert is not supposed to
uepend upon popular approval Wag
ner was great but the average person
did not know it for a great many years
The genius of Tennyson and Keats was
at first unrecognized The essence of
greatness is novelty and a thing which
Is new lb moie than likely to strike the
unaccustomed mind as senseless or
wildly impossible The fact that Lom
brosos conclusions seem Improbable to
the average mind is by no means a
proof that he Is not right
There seems to be something odd
about his theory however So far as it
con be grasped by the uninitiated it
pi am to be that any deviation from the
rrrcl is a sign of degeneracy There
reasonable doubt of this The nor-
nan in any age is the av erage man
1111
1UIKS
neither very brilliant nor very stupid
very good nor very bad If there is to
be no dev lation from this ty pe how can
there be any progress The Chinese
have rested for centuries in the calm
conviction that theirs is the very best
country in the v ery best of all possible
worlds and whether we are degener
ntes or not we do not care to lollow in
the footsteps of the Chinese It may be
a good way to effect the conservation
of energy- but after all of what use is
the energy which is merely conserved
It is like the story of the sailor who was
asked what he would do it he nad limit
less wealth He said that he would buy
all the rum and tobacco in the world
Asked what he would do then he re
plied after a moments reflection that
he would buy more rum and more to
bacco His Imagination could go no
further So the Chinese are content to
use the limitless power of the human
mind in keeping things just as they are
and they can conceive of no higher
pleasure than keeping things as they
arc forevermore
The Anglo Saxon therefore argues
that the degenerate is a man who does
not progress or progresses In the wrong
direction who having the opport lnlty
to be a man elects to be a beast with
the remnants of a soul and intellect su
perimposed The man who leaves the
normal line of action because he is too
great and too active to walk In a rut
must not be confounded with the -weakling
who falls out of line because he has
not the strength and patience to follow
the path of others
Cnrlinlic Acid
An enquiring reader of the newspa
pers propounds the question why it is
that so many people too poor to afford
luxuries sem to be possessed of carbolic
acid He says that we frequently read
of cases In which somebody has gotten
hold of the carbolic acid bottle by mis
take in the dark or in Ignorance of its
properties or because It happened to be
a handy Instrument with which to com
mit suicide and he asks why the law
against the promiscuous sale of poisons
is not enforced in this case
In the first place It may be stated
that there Is no law which can be
framed which will absolutely prevent
the sale of poisons to persons who
might want to make unlawful use of
them Many substances useful In the
household are poisonous when taken in
largp quantities and this is especially
so with liquids used as disinfectants
Several of these are deadly poisons
when taken internally So are some
liniments
It is probable that few pople in their
right minds or with even a fragment
of common seme remaining would com
mit suicide by means of carbolic acid if
they understood Just what kind of stuff
it Is It produces intense agony unlike
some other poisons and Home persons
who have attempted to destroy them-
selves by means of It have had a chance
to repent while slowly recovering from
the very painful effects of the act But
the poison is often at hand when some
body is rash enough to desire to com
mit suicide In a hurry and that per
haps explains the frequency of its use
Speaking of poisons In general how
ever it may be said that the careless
ness of the average family in leaving
such things about Is entirely Inexcusa
ble Some drug stores put up these sub
stances In bottles of a peculiar shape
plainly marked with large label show
ing a skull and cross bones The odd
shape of the bottle unlike that of any
ordinary receptacle lessens the chance
of getting hold of It in the dark by mis
take though it would seem that anyone
going to a closet where bottles oi poison
were mixed up with other bottles would
liav e the sense to take a light or at any
rate to be sure that the bottle was what
it ought to be before talcing any of the
contents On general piinciples it is
best to keep such thlng3 on a high helf
where children cannot reach them and
in most cases this high shelf would bet
ter be in a locked closet
Yesterday commenting on the municipal
elccton In Greater New York the Lon
don St James Gazette said It is the
greatest blow yet struck at the most ne
farious system of organized triumphant
villainy ever foisted on a civilized com
munity by a gang of corrupt blackmail
ers We are glad to note thit our Eng
lish contemporary isi careful to assert that
the blackm illers were of the corrupt and
not of the virtuous kind Otherwise we
doubt if we could htve put the case more
neatly ourselrcs It is satisfactory to ob
serve that British journals really are be
ginning to have an Intelligent idea con
cerning affairs on this Side of the water
As we understand It at last the Pan
ama Canal Company- has made a definite
olTer of its worthless waterway failure to
the Walker Commission What It Is will
develop when the Commissions report
is published ItdoTs not matter The
American people afe committed to the
Nicaragua route and will not easily be
deflected from It
Agiin we arc reminded by Republican
pipers tint their party actually swept
Iowa We admit the fact and would
tell Ultra th it the Democratic ticket in
Mississippi was unanimously Heeled But
what do thse things signify except as
the good book of Mormon says Whoso
blowcth not his own horn verily by no
man shall his horn be blowed Let us
give the sure tiling States a rest
Our neighboring territory Montgomery
County Maryl ind redeemed Itclf Tues
day electing thr intlre Democratic county
ticket Colonization from the District and
from Virginia did not work this time In
fact coloiiHitlon in Maryland his been
rendered all but impossible by the new
election law
Vun AVjeU Detent
trom the New ork Times
The vote against Van Wyck Is the true
teat of public sentiment toward Tam
many There w w a lammany head that
people could h i and they have lilt It
hard Running Eom votes behind
his Tammany Huiatts on the Judlciiry
ticket In this to rlel district and falling
some SOOOJ votes hnrt of the Low bal
let cast in the sa district It Is pi liily
evident tint If i name insteul of Mr
Shepards had lieided the Tamm inj
ticket lie would have gone djwn under
an adverse m ijorlty appro idling or per
haps exceeding 100000 Tint shows whit
would hive happened had Mr Crokei
ventured to nominate a thorough going
lammanv man for mayor It shows Into
whit deep detestation Tamm in his
brought llrelf
I he lot to ItXIIe
trom the Philadelphia Inquirer
New york has repudiated Itlcli ml
Croker the heretofore boss of the city
who has been ruling the inutilclp illt
from his country estute In Englund New
york U not sensitive as a rule It In not
an American city It Is filled with for
eigners of the most lgrorant type No
doubt Tammany commanded the votes of
all of these foreigners y esterdaj but
there were nouti American voters to
overcome them TummRnj Is cleaned
out Croker Ih beaten It Is possible that
New York will become a real Amcrliau
clfy under the new conditions
WASHINGTON THURSDAY 30VEMBEII 7 1901
FOREIGN TOPICS
Somcthlrg like a scare was caused in
Naples one night last week by the ap
pearnnce in the streets of the late Kirs
Humberts double Bertolsnl a photog
rapher from Salerno Is vey proud of ills
clos resemblance to the late unfortunate
sovereign whose manners and wavs he
made It his business to c iref ully study
Driving past the royal palace late at
night he was taken by the stntlnel on
duty at the gate for the ghost of the
murdered King
The soldltr crossed himself and mut
tered a prayer but the apparition caused
him to tremble so violently that his sink
ing hand caught the trigger of his rifle
which went off
Tho guard Immediately turned out and
discovered that the frightened sentry had
fainted away He was at once replaced
but half an hour later the second sentry
rushed inu the guardroom shouting
King Humbert our murdered King is
w tlklng drtwn the street
The ofHcr on duty at one started oil
down the street on his bicycle and soon
overtook the dead Kings double who he
was obliged to admit bore a wonderful
likeness to the late King of Italy
Some particulars concerning the way in
which the Boer prisoners are treated In
India and Ceylon is given by the Irdlan
correspondent of the Clvilta Cattollca
a periodical published In Rome They sit
present number about 10000 and are dis
tributed In six camps namely at Dia
talawa In Ceylon Ahmednagar in Bom
bay Bell vry In Madras and Trlchlnop
oly In southern India Each prisoner Is
provided with a sun helmet canvas shoes
slippers light flannel jacket shlrC draw
ers stockings and pocket handkerchiefs
Each has a camp bedstead and mattress
with pillow and two coverlets As regards
food tbty receive the earn allowance as
is made to tho soldiers who guard them
while the Boer olHcers are provided for
In the same wav as British otllcers serv
ing in the Held The camp consists of long
rows of mud cabins thatched with straw
like those of the natives arranged in
wide clean streets lit up at night by the
electric light In each cabin there are
from ten to twelve prisoners In charge of
one of the Boers who is elected by his
fellow -prisoners and styled captain
Around all the cabins there Is a barrier
of barbed Wirt outside which are the cab
Ins of the English soldiers who keep
guard The prisoners get up at C oclock
in tho morning and go to bed at 3 30
oclock at night Twice a week they are
taken out for exercise accompanied oy
British soldiers Except at appoinb d
times no Boer Is allowed to pass tne
barrier which surrounds the cabins un
der pain of death but the officers are per
mitted under parole to go wherever they
llke The military authorities have pro
vided amusements for the prisoners and
often the oldlers on guard Join them In
a frlcndlv game at cricket or football
Money from friends must be handed over
to an ofllcial who will restore It when
they are set at liberty-
A German scientist has recently dev Ised
a method of manufacturing artificial
gutta percha from peat and If It turns
out to be what IS claimed it will simplify
one of the greatest problems in electricity
the Insulation of ocean cables Thus far
gutta percha Is the only- substance which
has been found to furnish perfect pro
tection for a wire -against the chemical
lnnueiees of salt water and the product
Is not only limited but is controlled by
an Ergllsh firm of cable m inufacturers
who own the forests in the- East Indies
from which gutta percha Is obtained Ex
pdrltrents to find a xubstltutc hive been
going on for years throughout the world
but thus far nothing has been entirely
successful The price of gutta percha has
been advanced considerably by the de
mands of the manufacturers of golf balls
which has ahrost doubled the cost of
cable mat ufactiire and Jt this German
Inventor Is able to mako an equally good
insulator out of peat he will make a
very Important contribution to the world 3
economy for peut can be found In al
most every country- on the globe In quan
tities almost unlimited There are 7 000000
acres In Ireland 2 5M00O In Scotland and
even more In Germany Russia Norway
Sweden Finland and other countries of
Europe
It will take a revolution of sirpasslng
completeness to reconcile the mass of the
French people t the toleration of any-
thlfVg English For about three months past
an Illustrated paper called LAsslettc
au Beurrehas been freely circulated on
the Paris boulevards containing pictures
which not only represented Englishmen
in an odious light in South Africa but
also contained abominable Insults of the
style with which Parisians and their -visitors
became familiar in the pages of Le
Rlre somei eighteen months ago The
paper LAssiette uu Beurre lias been so
personal in its attacks upon the British
royal family to say nothing of the mem
bers of the Salisbury- Government that
It Is now affirmed that legal steps with
a view to prosecution have actually been
taken
Strange as It may seem many of the
Dreyfusard papers which during the ex
citement of i the cause celebre were un
stinting in their praise of British support
in the great affair of truth and Justice
arc now the most rampant among the
Anglophobic press There Is one notuble
exception however Yves Guyofs paper
Le Slecle which still remains stanch to
the British cause in South Africa Inci
dentally M Gujot Ins lost his own for
tune and has Impaired those of some
of his willing supporters In attempting to
set the I rencb public right in regard to
the British policy
Dr Maxwells report to the Federal
Government of New South Wales issued
a short while ago m ide It very clear that
the Kanaka works cheapest and best
where- a white man could hardly work
nt all He showed moreover that where
as a white man Cost on an average 1 23
per working day a Kanaka averaged only
0 cents This greater efficiency and less
expense of the Kanaka- in tropical lands
makes all the difference to the sugir In
dustry In which between SOV and 9 OW
of them are emploved in addition to near
ly 30 0UO white laborers and artisans In
fact the exodus of the former would al
most inevitably entail the dlnpl leement
of large numbers of the latter probably
to the already oveicrowded labor markets
of Melbourne and Sydney but it must be
distinctly borne in mind that In the ex
treme northern districts If the K inaka
goes the w hlte man cannot take his pi ice
J h s wool mean a seriousJoss to Queens
land which has nearly J15 WouO invested
In the sugar plintlng industry more than
S7oO0WJ of which was ttdvanccd by nnd
is still owlig to Stale
Extraordlnaiy Inconvenience has been
causeel throi ghout luropean Russia In
consequence of the difllc altles of this
yeirs nivigntion of the volgi At the
latest accounts from Astrakhan no few
er than 1511010 poods of oil alone were
lying in barges in the lower reaches of
the river between Astrukluin and S im
tofT with little hope of getting the barges
even half way un tho river this year
Sceires of towns along the Volga from
Saratoff northwards to Kazan Nizhni
Novgorod Kostromi Jaroslaw and Rj
hlnskl not to mention hundreds of places
nlonghc b nks of thei river which are
dependent to e considerable extent on
the n iphtba supplies fot their prosperity
elurlng the coming winter and spring are
already face to face with serious diffi
culty owing to their supplies of naphthi
and ostnthl lnvlug given out An addi
tion ll IOoVM poods of oil principally
ostitki destined for the higher reaches
of the rlvei am lying at Astrikhin and
fe irs are entertiln d tint it will be ini
pessible to get It een is fir is Kaz in
this year A shortage ef w it r In the
higher reaches of the Veilga Is a com
mini occurrence and specially built light
draft vessels run north of Kaz in dur
ing the whoh of the navigation period of
each yeirj bill such i duiciemy as tint
of this nr Hi tin lower reaches of the
river h is not been know n for a very long
time For a considerable distance north
of Astriklim Vessels of modentc
draft find ltiwjsilli to run as a rule
up to Novnnber This year however
thej have been liloe ked nnd DMcriil
case- of vcsrtcls slickiui on
aiul urejiKiiiB in vw iMcurreo
Hutli lereliii mid IIi tTu Nth
FrumWic hir Mk Weill
Tile C astoina j 1511 1 au a toUectln rev
enue hi the IViflippiiiei uu the laisirv
that thev an1 fonlgn territory the lr
ternal Keveimfc Bureil H collecting
Internal- revenue there pn he theory tint
tkir iim etnmeiale terrHTL vni -
charges the ollior with Ifieonsisiciiey with
the law I
f
TO UNITE IN ONE CONTROL
Viirliicni Ine ific nml Other Lines
liiide r the inme lle uil
NEW YORK Nov 6 William K Van
dcrbllt reached this city from Earope on
the steamship Oceanic this morning Re
went to his office In tho Grand Central
Station during the forenoon and spent
some time In conference with New iork
Central officials and In looking over his
mall He talked with If McIC Twombiy
who has representee the interests of the
Chicago ard Northwestern held at the
office of J lj Morgan A Co for the set
tlement or the Northern Pacific and Bur
lington controversy
In the afternoon Mr Vandrrbllt went
to his country seat Idle Hour at Islip
L 1 R is expected that the deferred
meetings of the Vandcrbllt bo irds of
railroad directors will be held early next
week Persons chiefly interested In the
adjustment of the Northern
interests said today that it was
not certain that any formal public an
nouncement would be made of the re
sults accomplished by- the conferring
parties The working out of the plan
agreed upon it was asserted will take a
long time and settlement of the details
will depend upon contingencies that may
arise from time to tVie
The most important matter that has
been settled thus far Is the formation of
a new corporation to take over the stocks
of the Northern Pacific and perhaps of
other companies that may be included In
the general plan of harmonizing the rail
road Interests In the Northwest In this
new corporation the Union Pacific inter
ests will have equal representation with
the Morgan Hill Interests and it is inti
mated that holdings of Chicago and
Northwestern and St Paul stocks will oe
factors of the new company
One of the leading members of the Har
riman syndicate was asked today If the
Chicago and Northwestern and the Chi
cago and Milwaukee and St Paul rail
roads were to be included in the Northern
Pacific agreement He replied
Yes the plan agreed upon Is a far
reaching on- and it alms at complete
railroad harmony not only In the North
west but in the entire trans continental
region By degrees each Interest will be
welded Into the central controlling body
I will not say- there Is to be any radical
change of control In any railroad but
there will be a consolidation of interests
which will be mutually- sdvantageots
Ihe arrangements to be made will ensure
a permanent peace in Nortnwestern and
trars conllnental traffic affairs
CHICAGO Nov 6 The stockholders if
the Chicago Burlington and Qulncy Rail
road Company the ola illitois corpora-
finn bpbl thulr nnnnl mln hri to
day W hen they got through with their I
dellDcrnttons tney announced fiat tney
had not taken final action on a v of the
subjects before them but had djeurned
to meet again November 14
A board of directors was el cL d but
the names were withheld The
reason for this course final
action awaits the pennant- - i ement
of the differences alleged to etween
the Hill and Harrlman inte
POLITICS TO END IK CZTRT
W O CnrdiTell Sues the Kiuntii 5rec
refiirj ef Mute for IlKn iBeie
KANSAS CITY Mo Nov G W O
Cardwellformerly a member of the Legis
lature has brought suit for 123000 dam
ages on account of the publication of a re
cent letter by Sam B Cook Secretary of
State Mr Cook was Chairman of the
Democratic State Central Committee
when Mr Cardwell was In the Legislature
At a political banquet In this city recent
ly Cardwell said that bills against corpo
rations were stopped In the Legislature by
the State Committee when the corpora-
tlons contributed to the State campaign
fund
Mr Cook answrered by saying that
Cardw ells statements were absolutely
and unqualifiedly false He also said that
Cardwell was the willing tool of the chief
lobbyist of the State and the most cor
rupt one These two things Cardwell re
lies on chiefly to make his case He al
leges that Mr Cook told him the State
Committee got part of its campaign funds
by suppressing legislation hostile to cor
porations and he will he declares try- to
find out in court whether that is true
and it not where campaign funds do
come from The question of who Is the
biggest lobbyist in Missouri will also be
an issue in the case
Mr Cook when asked what he had to
say about Cardweils suit replied that
Cardwell s reputation had not been In
jured
PERSONAL
The Rev Dr Cameron Mann rector of
Grace Episcopal Church of Kansas City
will be consecrated Bishop of North Da
kota in that church early in December
Pouitney Bigelow Joseph Pulitzer the
proprietor of the New York World and
I ord Norbury will be passengers on the
steamer Celtic which will sail from Liver
pool on November 8 for New York Oa
November G Mrs Levi Z Ieiter of Chl
cugo sailed on the Teutonic
Justice William Travers Jerome will be
the gueat of honor at the annual dinner
of the Litchfield County Bar Association
in Winsted Conn on November 22
Dr Jacob Cooper professor of logic and
merit 1 1 philosophv at Rutgers College
and also Vice President of the institu
tion Jns been grantcet an Indefinite leave
of absences He will go abroad but has
not et a time for his departure
James lleftry M Campbell K C the
new Solicitor General for Ireland was
formerly Member of Parliament for the
Stephens Green division of Dublin He
has also acteel as Senior Crown Prosecu
tor for the city and ccunty of Dublin
lie was born in Courty Dublin In lSil
and was educated at Kingstown School
and Trinity College Dublin whero he
was senler moderator and gold medalist
In classics and in history law anel po
litical economy He was also auditor and
gold medalist in oratory
A complimentary banquet was given
In Boston a few evenings ago to George
0 Davis by his a soclates In the naval
office of the Bosion custom house Mr
Divis having completnl fifty years of
continuous service in tint olllce
Jose de Olivares representative of the
St Louis Imposition Company at th Pan
American Exposition has been niKntcd
commissioner to sever li of the South
American countries including Argentina
faraginy ITruguiy Bollvii anil Chile
Sir William H White whose resigna
tion of the Directorship of Nav il Con
struction on account of III health la ex
pected was appolnteel to that office In
lSSsi and his lcn responsible for and
frequently designer of all the British
warships built since then He was born
at Devorport In 1SI5 nnd eelucnteel at the
Royal School ef Architecture in South
KenHngton He v as graduated at the
head of the lit of tments and was at
once appoititeel to the construction depart
ment of the admiralty where he rcmalneel
until IM rising through the various
grades to the rank of chief constructor
FHem 1881 to lVsl he w s engage il in the
organization and direction of tin
department of the llswlck works
of Sir W illlum Armstrong luring which
time lie eh s gne el anel hnllt t number of
w irfliips lor foreign nivlt wlih ypeeelse
never utli Ireil before then In l s5 be vv is
irvitcd hi the ailmlnltv to take up hlr
pre sent position In ivti he w is knighted
il has written i Minuil on Naval Ar
ehltectire wlilc has become a stindird
work nml his been tinnslated into virl
OUrt langi lge8
lle sli J Iiib nun tiltuu
I mm Ihr lnduiuiln Ne
Tin ictiin of the Win low Glisa Trust
u lb prle f Its product 3 per
ent I n Inc with tin reent cut made
1 v the Suar Tins The object In both
ses wis h sune lliey want to
These two cxaui
trov all
il c e rlv Irelic U the present dlsposi
anel ire further ev hlencc
I il ef tru ti
r th xcr Im of i lbralled and tyran
alcil Ipavwr Tru ts ar h re to ntav io
also le be reg
ouut bnt ilic ar her
Hinted and controlled
HIGH WATER MARK REACHED
Xeurl n -Million Nnmcs on the An
tloniil Irnalun Jtulla
The pension rolls or the Government
on June 30 last according to the annual
report of Commissioner Evans of the
Pension Bureau contnlneel 937735 names
a net Increnso of 12 pensioners during
the twelve months ended that date This
constitutes tne high water mark In the
history of the bureau
During the year SSJ33 names were
dropped by reason of pcrsioners deaths
S5 widows remarried 15X2 minors be
came of age 1 506 pensioners failed to
claim and 1462 names were dropped from
other canes making a total of 43CSG pen
sioners dropped from tho roils During
the year 3567 pensiorers were rcstevred
to the rolls and certificate were issued
to 1125 new pensioners Of the latter
three were on account of tho war of 1S12
widows C67 on account of th Mexican
war 146for Indian wars and 10C5 on ac
count of the war with Spain the remain
der being civil war pensioners
Classified by wars the pensioners now
on the rolls are Revolutionary 9 war
of 1S12 152S Indian wars -4835 Mexican
war 15G77 civil war 370252 and Spanish
wnr 3G0I Of the Revolutionary pension
ers 4 are widows and 5 daughters of sol
diers who served in that war Xhe only
surviving pensioned soldier of the war
cs 18H is Hiram Cronk of Ave Oneida
County N Y who is Ml years of age
The roll contains however the names
of 1527 widows of soldiers who serve el
in that war being a reuuetion of 213 dur
ing the year One thousand and eighty
six survivors and 2473 widows draw
pensions on account of Indian wars and
7V survivors and 8103 widows on ac
count of tne war with Mexico
The total amount paid to pensioners
from July 1 1790 to June SO 13H reached
the enormous total of 2703U0k3 Ot
this sum J41841G17 was on accpunt of
the war of 1S12 30201187 on acciirat ot
the Mexican war and J54O204 on ac
count of Indian wars Pour thousand five
hundred and forty seven pensioners re
side in foreign countries and during the
fiscal year J411S1 was paid to them
According to the mortuary tables and
estimnte prepared by the War Depart
ment there should now be living 983 311
survivors of tho war of the rebellion
Ihe pension rolls contain tho names of
71S00U survivors of that war Indicating
that ov cr 200 COO v eterans have nev er been
pensioned Probabiy many of these says
the Commissioner will revcr apply un
less other than a disability pension shall
be offered for the reason that they do not
like to make the necessary oath that they
are incapacitated by disease of a perma
nent character to an extent as to disqual
ify them from earning a living
Commissioner Evans recoriTnends the
repeal of the law making tne Pension ffa
widow begn at the date of the fAisbanTs
death instead of the elate of filbig tha ap
plication He takes the posttloi that the
large arrearages wire a standing Induce
ment to file fradulent claims especially
when the chances of detection were so
small He al30 urges a complete revision
of the roster of attorneys practicing be
fore the Bureau and a more careful scru
tiny In future of the qualifications of those
who apply for admission the fixing of a
specific attorney- for war claims under
accrued pensions that tijj Pension Bu
reau be given power to determine the
proof of legal marriages In pension claims
by a standard uniform throughout the
country and the enactment of a provis
ion that the balance of pension money- In
the hands of a treasurer of a soldiers
home shall upon the death of the pen
sioner be paid to his widow minor chil
dren father or mother and in default of
these be returned to the United States
Treasury
1113 most important recommendation
however Is thata radical change be made
in the present method of adjudicating
pension claims his experience convincing
him that this was necessary in order to
ensure with a reasonable degree of cer
tainty the payment of pensions to those
designated by law to receive them In
this connection he says
In the first place claims are adjudi
cated upon ex parte testimony proenired
and submitted in written form on the
part of the clalrrant The Government
makes no defence to the claims filed
against it The witnesses are not cross
examined anil no mans have been de
vised by which It can be satlsfnctorily
determlned by the Bureau what manner
of men are offered as witnesses or what
reliance la to be placed upon their testi
mony unless clams are soeclally investi
gated No Judgment could bo obtained
upon such evidence in any court of law
and an impartial mind Is not satisfied as
to the correctness of a decision based
thereon IL is a lamentable fact that
claims are often admitted which arc not
believed to possess any merit whatever
and claimants whose cases are rejectee
are seldom wlllirg to accept such action
ns final Claimants lack confidence in the
decisions of this Bureau as determining
the real merits of chilms and it there
fore often happens that rejected cases are
reopened and at i ealed again and again
being abandoned only when claimant and
attorney have both lost all hope of a
favorable adjudication
After a claim Is once admitted this
bureau ordinarily takes no further ac
tion In the case with a view of ascertain
ing that pensionable status continues
therefore a pension once granted usually
continues for life It can hardly be main
talneel that soldiers and their frienels as
a class are so different from other men
that none of them have any temotatlon
to at least enlarge upon the truth when
thousands of dollars may b obtained by
a few affidavits made without even the
prospect of cross examination and ft Is
equally clear that ordinarilv such afli
elavits would be given very little weight
especially when the affiants testify posi
tively to the existence of circumstances
very material to the issue but which hap
peneel years before they became material
and which were not in their nature such
as to impress themselves upon casual ob
servers Yet this is the character of evi
eience upon which many pension claims
are -adjudicated
In the next place the evidence upon
which a claim is adjudicateel ls prepared
and filed by an attorney appointed by the
claimant whose fee is dependent upon
the allowance of the claim There were
registered June 20 1901 13 Vl attorneys
authorized to prosecute pension claims
It Is a well known fact that some of the
attorneys practicing before this bureau
are men of the highest standing in the
communities in vvhlch they reside but
because of the comparatively small fees
which miy be charged and the amount
of work involved If an attorney is con
scientious the pursuit has not attracted
so many reputable practitioners as might
be hopeel for On the other hand It has
attracted a large number of unscrupulous
men who seeing the many opportunities
for the perpetration of fraud with small
prospects of detection calculate to prose
cute to a favorable issue nearly every
case filed bv them and to accomplish
their objtct they adopt every species of
fraud known to men
The penIcn Item ha become one ot
the largest In the financial budget The
generosity of the American people to the
soldiers and sailors and their del endents
knows no limit but the officers of the
Government tlw people s servants should
not permit that generosity to be abused
No argument Is needed to sho v thit th
expenditure of such vast sunn of the
peoples money should rest upon a sys
tem containing more of the elements ot
protection to the Government than can
be found In the methrjds row in force in
settling pension claims The fault is not
with the soldieir clalrrant or his widow
but the system devised for ascertaining
their rights is so faulty that It otTers a
most lnvltlns field for the enterprising
and udventurous claim agent or attornev
It holds out an inducement to those th it
m iy be persuaded to file false claims or
fraudulent evidence In support of valid
nids and encourages
ones In fact the system
courages fraudulent practices of v irious
sorts It is not to be wondred nt that
the Government Is constantly being In
pos d ui on W he n attention is r llle el to
the defects which are resoonsfiile for
these conditions a mlshty howl goes nn
in certain juarters Thee eonultions re
not new Thev have existe d ever since
the war and able and conscientious Com
missioners members of both of the great
political parties have In their annual re
ports strongly protestel agilnst them
Commissioner Evans then i iiotos simi
lar complaints against the existlna sys
tem which hive been made by nearly
e verv Incumbent of the otiic since 1SCJ
He does not submit any specific recom
mend itlons ns to a remedv fen- the evlli
of the present svstem beyond sugere sting
that the Commissioner of Pensions he
the power to discipline attorneys
who Indulge in sharp practices before the
Depirtmcnt which power was revoked by
Congress In lt8l
V llepulille mi icsv
llrom tho M tout Otube DiiiKrit
Cub in annexatlcn when annexation In
tomes a I radical question Is nn Is nie on
which the Republican party will bo united
nut on which tht Democratic artv will
be ellridesl as that organization Is on
every other great question
THE NAVY PERSONNEL ACr
A Hilling ns to Pay br the Tremtarjr
Ucpnrtment
L P Mitchell Assistant Comptroller
of the Treasury yesterday- rendered
decision regarding the pay of offi
cers of the navy commissioned after
the Navy Personnel Act took effect At
Ian Stuart assistant surgeon United
States Navv appeued from tho action
or the Auditor for tho Navy Department
In having charged him wlth CHJt as an
overpayment of compensation Stuart
served aa an apothecary from September
3 1513 to April 28 1KU On April 29 KB
he accepted nn appointment as assistant
surgeon for temporary service in the
navy and served In that capacity until
July 5 1905 on which day he accepted
nn appointment as assistant surgeon In
the regular navy He was paid few Au
gust 2 and 2 1900 twice and It Is said
wan net at nea rrom September 23 to Oc
tober 1 190 nnd therefore entitled to
shire duty pay only for that time Ho
contended that he was entitled under the
provisions of the Navy Personnel Act to
receive pay at the old navy- rate
After discussing the law bearing upon
the matter the Comptroller says
It Is not to be supposed that Congress
having passed an Important measure
after due deliberation Intended to effect
a certain well known purpose should by
chance words In the way olj nn amend
ment to a temporary provision In that
act reverse the policy of the original act
nrd instead ot assimilating the pay of
the two branches of the service mace
permanent provision for two pay tabes
fcr the naval service each officer to have
the benefit of tho one giving him the most
pay
In ray opinion the claimant is not en
titled to the old navy rates of pay after
Juiy S 1990 tho date when he entered tho
regular navy and tha action of the Au
ditor is affirmed
PLANS POB BEOHGANIZATIOir
Seventh Tv ntlonnl Heinle to llennme
Within a Ieiv Huts
Edwin Gould the new President of the
Seventh National Bank of New York
and A llliam N Cromwell counsel for the
company had a conference with the
Comptroller of the Currency by appoint
ment y estcrday morning They submitted
the final papers for the resumption of the
business of tho bank
Under Mr Cromwells plan the bank
charges off about 1200000 of losses This
will wpe out the surplus and absorb tho
100 per cent assessment on the capital
stock reducing the original capital rtock
of 3CO0u0 to 200090 After this has been
done the capital stock will be Increased
HWO000 makirg it In all 1700000 The
additional stock has been sold at 115 per
share Comptroller RIdgley 3ays
There will be cash enough on hand
when the bank opens to pay all the de
positors and amounts due to other banks
in full This will be a very strong condi
tion and makes It a very thorough re
organization
Ihe Comptroller has approved this plan
by which the depwitors numbering over
AOiy are paid In full with allowance of
Interest Tha bank will resume business
unaer the old name and In the new bank
ing house within the next few days
Mr Cmmwell states that the bank will
allow interest upon deposits during the
perioel of suspension at the rate of 3 per
cent per annum to be credited to the
account of each depositor He also says
that the New York Clearing House As
sociation has after examination of the
plan readmltteel the Seventh National
Bank to full membership in that body
DR SWALLOW STJSPENBED
Debarred from the Metlioellst Church
Llitil the vext Conference
HARRISPURO Pa Nov G Dr Silas
C Swallow editor of the Pennsylvania
Methodist and formerly a candidate for
State Treasurer on the Prohibition ticket
wa3 this afternoon given notice that bo
has been debarred from all ministerial
service and church privileges until the
ensuing annual conference
This action was taken by a committee
of twelve ministers from the Harrisburg
district or the Central Pennsy lv anla Con
ference after a court of enquiry lasting
eight days in which time they investi
gated charges of falsehood brought by th
Rev C V Hartzell of thU city The sus
pension will continue until March when
the matter will be taken up nt the annual
conference Of tho twelve specifications
brought against the Rev Dr Swallow
eight w e sustained by the committee
The counter charge that the Rev Mr
Hartzeli nad tried to incite a rabble to
mob Dr Swallow on the night of Presi
dent McKlnieys death was the accusa
tion around vvhlch most of the evidence
centred This w as emphatically denied bv
the Rev Mr Hartzell who presented tes
timony showing that he had nothing to do
with the alleged gathering of a mob for
that purpose Dr Swallow had In the
Pennsy lvana Methodist on the Satur
day preceding the Presidents death pub
lished an arti le in which he insinuated
that the conduct of the late President on
the canteen question and concerning
trusts had been such as to incite to an
archy and In effect saving that the
President s action had been the cause of
his assassination There was some talk
at violence at the time on the streets but
no steps were taken
In - letter to one of the local papers
Mr Hartzell criticised Dr Swallow s con
duct and this brought forth an answer
from him In which he made charges
against Mr Hartzell
His fellow ministers then laid before the
presiding officer the accusation against
Dr Swallow of falsehood with the re
sult thRt a committee was appointed to
Investigate
ine mose oilier icciuib no
Ized the fighf Iietween the two men with
the result that charges both remarkab e
and surplaius were brought on both
side
jir IliLluru icu v
In the case and Dr Swallow was assisted
i a aarnnn le th Hiv Dr Pawrlck
of the Philadelphia conference
1 nis evening jir utilise e
sorrow for Di Swallow and sild I
nad to bring the charge against him to
lrf me rhimctpr of the stain of his
accusations
Dr swallow snoweu ma lyuieu pur
i ct I- tin Tfptit it ttln on-
nUClOUS Spilll niltll UJC eoub
qulry was announced and stated he woul 1
nave sometning more to say acer in
statement issued this afternoon he says
Several members of the committee who
found the verdict of guilty were men with
in n t ina hnalnaa nf nnlttrll
illfferences The suspense Is fronrall min
isterial EerVlCeS UIIU UllUVl teee
until ihe ensuing unaual confti ir
must therefore deprive myself of the holy
t Alnnf ll O 40 leaf
nrajer meeting and preaching ser Ice I
T -1 e n mltul
presume nowever snun uc eiv
to v islt churches of other denominations
tUnti n fun n elv nre
Ilmlnary The trial will come at the con
ference in aiarcn it may go irom umc
n11 rn tlm elttrra nnnfal
and from there to the General Conference
in isoi
V looil Illustration
rruin the Philadelphia Kecord
Perhaps eliere could be no better illus
tration of the folly of attempting to cre
ate a mercantile marine by the payment
of Government subsidies thin is affordeel
by tie experience of Trance Altlhal ap
pears to have been really
In that country Is an ippetltc fbr more
subsidies Though paym nts have been
m ilntalned for a series of years the mar-
cunllle marine is decreasing Even the
vigorous cttemlon of a colonial policy n s
fulled to male- business for the owners
of 1 rcmh mcrchntmen
The President
Irom the Fhiladelphia Record
President Roosevelt went from Wash
ington to Oyster Bay N V to cast his
vote anil lor no oiner
his home only long enough to deposit
ills Diuoi anu reiuriiius - f
Washington It took two days J J0
a very uusy man eo uu una - r
Plent of men who conslucrlthemselves
in ine same ci iss ouej -----
with the President who will
not wane arounu v -against
h
the bid gove nment which tney
ucpiore